Mearns Family History
Mearns Name Meaning
Scottish: habitational name from a place so named in Renfrewshire
or from a region called The Mearns, more or less co-extensive with
Kincardineshire, named in Gaelic as an Mhaoirne, a derivative
of maor ‘beadle’ (see Mair).
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Name Distribution of Mearns Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Mearns families
 11 - 19  4 - 10 |
 1 - 3  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Mearns families
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25 - 47 9 - 24 |
1 - 8 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Mearns families
|
168 - 334 57 - 167 |
1 - 56 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Mearns Family Origin
Mearns Immigration Information
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Average Life Expectancy for Mearns
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Mearns Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Mearns census records
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